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A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all…A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all…
A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or reformed churches be of God ... containing some arguments by which the meanest may see the vanity of popery, and 40 detections of their fraud, with directions, and materials sufficient for the confutation of their voluminous deceits ... : the second part showeth (especially against the French and Grotians) that the Catholic Church is not united in any merely humane head, either Pope or council / by Richard Baxter, a Catholic Christian and Pastor of a church ...A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or reformed churches be of God ... containing some arguments by which the meanest may see the vanity of popery, and 40 detections of their fraud, with directions, and materials sufficient for the confutation of their voluminous deceits ... : the second part sheweth (especially against the French and Grotians) that the Catholick Church is not united in any meerly humane head, either Pope or council / by Richard Baxter, a Catholick Christian and Pastor of a church ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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Now as all these must needs be against the Popish Invocation of Saints, so they were against that which is now determined to be de fide; Whence I gather (on the by) 1. That the Romish faith increaseth, and is not the same as heretofore. 2. That they had not this Article by Tradition from any of these Fathers, or from the Apostles by them (unless from the Scriptures.) 3. That men that err in such points as are now defined by Councils to be de fide, are yet accounted by Papists to be of their Church and faith: And therefore they may be of ours, ⟨p. 159⟩notwithstanding such errors as this in hand. 4. And note also by this taste, whether the Papists be not a perjured generation, that swear not to expound Scripture but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
Now as all these must needs be against the Popish Invocation of Saints, so they were against that which is now determined to be de fide; Whence I gather (on the by) 1. That the Romish faith increaseth, and is not the same as heretofore. 2. That they had not this Article by Tradition from any of these Fathers, or from the Apostles by them (unless from the Scriptures.) 3. That men that err in such points as are now defined by Councils to be de fide, are yet accounted by Papists to be of their Church and faith: And therefore they may be of ours, ⟨p. 159⟩notwithstanding such errours as this in hand. 4. And note also by this tast, whether the Papists be not a perjured generation, that swear not to expound Scripture but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
6. The Council of Laodicea condemned them as Idolaters that prayed to Angels, Can. 35. (which Caranza, Crab, and other Papists have turned into Angulos; whose falsification you may see fully detected by the said Bishop Usher, ibid. pag. 470. 471, 472. Read there also the full Testimonies of Greg. Nissen, Athanasius, Epiphanius, &c. against praying to Saints and Angels, and the detection of Bellarmines fraud, that pretendeth the Fathers to speak of the Gentiles Idolatry when they mention the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and say expressly they were not to be adored.